Café & Seda
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Podcast Overview
<p>Café & Seda: Podcast China-Latinoamérica es un espacio dedicado a conversaciones acerca de las relaciones entre China y lo países de América Latina y el Caribe. Es una iniciativa patrocinada por la Fundación Andrés Bello – Centro de Investigación Chino Latinoamericano y presentada por Parsifal D’Sola.</p>
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May 13, 2026
Los matices de la cooperación militar: China y la seguridad en América Latina
<p><b>Resumen del episodio:</b> Mariano del Pópolo,<b> </b>investigador postdoctoral en la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, conversa con Parsifal sobre una dimensión de la presencia china en América Latina que rara vez ocupa el centro del debate: la seguridad y la defensa. A partir de su informe sobre Chile —publicado por ICLAC, el Núcleo Milenio sobre Impactos de China en Latinoamérica y el Caribe— analiza cómo la cooperación militar entre Beijing y Santiago se ha institucionalizado desde el memorándum de entendimiento firmado en 2011 bajo Piñera, manteniéndose constante a través de gobiernos de distinto signo. La conversación aborda los mecanismos concretos de esa relación: diplomacia militar, foros de defensa regionales que China construyó siguiendo el modelo estadounidense, y los tres niveles en los que la industria de defensa china busca insertarse en la región — grandes sistemas de armas (donde aún no logra entrar), logística (donde ya ganó terreno) y tecnología de uso dual. En ese tercer nivel, drones DJI y sistemas antidrone de Hikvision —empresa sancionada por Estados Unidos— ya están presentes en las fuerzas armadas de Chile y Brasil, lo que ilustra cómo la competencia entre Washington y Beijing se procesa de forma distinta a la lógica de la Guerra Fría: sin alineamiento exclusivo, y con una integración cada vez mayor entre lo civil y lo militar.<br /><br /><b>Invitado: </b>Mariano Del Pópolo es Doctor en Ciencias Sociales por la Universidad de Buenos Aires y especialista en Relaciones Internacionales. Actualmente es investigador postdoctoral en la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, donde estudia cómo la competencia entre Estados Unidos y China está reconfigurando la seguridad y la militarización en América Latina. Su investigación más reciente analiza la cooperación militar y de defensa entre Chile y China, publicada por ICLAC — Núcleo Milenio sobre Impactos de China en Latinoamérica y el Caribe.</p><p></p><p><b>Fecha de grabación:</b> 16 de abril de 2026</p><p></p><p><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.fundacionandresbello.org/cafe-seda-podcast/" target="_blank"><b>Café & Seda</b></a> es un podcast patrocinado por la <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.fundacionandresbello.org/" target="_blank"><b>Fundación Andrés Bello – Centro de Investigación Chino Latinoamericano</b></a></p>
April 30, 2026
Chinese Investment in Latin America from a Legal Perspective
<p><b>Marco Germanò</b>, Doctoral Researcher at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, joins <b>Dr. Monika Prusinowska</b> —Ramon y Cajal Fellow at the University of Barcelona's Public International Law Department, who serves as guest host for this episode— to discuss the role of lawyers and law firms in channeling Chinese investment into Latin America. Drawing on his research in Brazil and Mexico, Marco examines how large Anglo-American law firms historically served as indispensable intermediaries between Chinese capital and local legal frameworks, and how that model is shifting: Chinese law firms are gaining ground, Chinese companies are building in-house legal teams on the ground, and Latin American firms are investing in China expertise through China desks, specialist hires, and direct partnerships with Chinese counterparts. The conversation also covers the cultural and communication challenges that persist in these interactions —from language barriers to differences in decision-making—, the state of academic exchanges between law schools in China, Brazil, and Mexico, and the evolving landscape of dispute resolution, where Chinese arbitration institutions such as CIETAC are beginning to challenge the dominance of traditional seats in London, New York, and Paris.</p><p></p><p><i>This episode is the result of a collaboration between Fundación Andrés Bello, the Public International Law Department of the University of Barcelona, and the Cologne International Forum.</i></p><p></p><p><b>Recommendations:</b></p><p></p><ol><li><i>Chinese Law and Development: Cases from the Global South</i> — a casebook edited by Matthew Rewi (University of Oxford) bringing together case studies on Chinese cross-border deals across multiple Global South jurisdictions. Available in open access.</li><li><i>The Vegetarian</i> — a novel by Han Kang, South Korean author. It follows a woman who decides to stop eating meat and the consequences that decision sets in motion across her personal and family life.</li></ol><p></p><p><b>Recording date:</b> July 10, 2025</p>
April 21, 2026
When Chinese State Capitalism meets Latin America
<p>Ning Leng, Assistant Professor at Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy, joins Dr. Monika Prusinowska —Ramon y Cajal Fellow at the University of Barcelona's Public International Law Department, who serves as guest host for this episode— to discuss how the Chinese state structures its relationship with Chinese companies, and what that means when those companies expand into Latin America. Drawing on the findings of her first book <i>Politicizing Business</i> (Cambridge University Press, 2025), they examine the mechanisms through which the Chinese government deploys both state-owned and private enterprises for political ends —from visibility projects to protest management— and how those patterns play out, with uneven results, in Latin American markets. The conversation also addresses the legal debate over whether Chinese SOEs should be treated as a single economic group in public procurement —using the Bogotá Metro bid as a recent case— and the findings of a survey of 20,000 respondents across 10 Global South countries on perceptions of foreign direct investment, where Chinese projects generate far less resistance than commonly assumed.<br /><br /><b>Recording date: </b>June 20, 2025</p><p></p><p><i>This episode is the result of a collaboration between </i><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.fundacionandresbello.org" target="_blank"><i>Fundación Andrés Bello</i></a><i>, the Public International Law Department of the University of Barcelona, and the Cologne International Forum</i></p>
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<p>Café & Seda: Podcast China-Latinoamérica es un espacio dedicado a conversaciones acerca de las relaciones entre China y lo países de América Latina y el Caribe. Es una iniciativa patrocinada por la Fundación Andrés Bello – Centro de Investigación Chino Latinoamericano y presentada por Parsifal D’Sola.</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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